how to convert a JavaScript literal object into Json object in PHP

Question

I have a JS literal object string such as {name:{first:"George",middle:"William"},surname:"Washington"} and I have to convert it in Json. How can I do it using PHP?

Answer 1

JS:

// Pretend we're POSTing this
var foo = {foo:{first:"George",middle:"William"}};

PHP:

$foo = $_POST['foo'];
$foo = json_decode( stripslashes( $foo ) );
echo $foo->first;

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Answer 2

If someone is still looking for an easy solution to this, as I did recently, you could check out the PHP library that I wrote: ovidigital/js-object-to-json

1) Install with composer

composer require ovidigital/js-object-to-json

2) Use it inside your project

$json = \OviDigital\JsObjectToJson\JsConverter::convertToJson($javascriptObjectString);